Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen

Frederick II the Earnest (1310–1349) was Margrave of Meissen and Landgrave of Thuringia from 1323, ruling first under the guardianship of his mother Elisabeth of Lobdeburg-Arnshaugk until he came of age in 1329. His declaration of a public peace in 1338 curtailed noble privileges and provoked the Thuringian Count's War of 1342–1346, when rebel lords gathered at Arnstadt.

After Emperor Louis IV died in 1347 he declined the German crown and supported Charles IV, whom he met at Bautzen in 1348. He died at the Wartburg.